If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

The future is bought with the present.

I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.

Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent